Yahoo! Safely: Net Safety Resources for Teachers & Parents
<http://safely.yahoo.com/>
How does Yahoo! help keep kids safe online? Find out on the recently
launched Yahoo! Safely <http://safely.yahoo.com/> site! As the most
trafficked internet destination in the world, Yahoo! is committed to
ensuring that the 30 million children on the internet in the US are
exploring it safely.
The new Yahoo! Safely site collects resources, knowledge and expertise
from across the Web for children, parents, and educators to raise
awareness about the importance of safety
<http://www.debaird.net/blendededunet/safety/index.html> , ethics and
piracy.
Check out some of the interactive features on Yahoo! Safely that help
kids form safe and smart Internet habits early in life:
Games and Activities - Play cyber-safety games online
Clips and Videos - Watch educational videos that help kids
become good cyber-citizens
Weekly Poll - Vote on opinions about safe practices
Avatar ID Card - Submit Avatars to be featured in the gallery
Online Safety Forum for Parents - Join in the discussion about
online child safety
Tech Advisor Articles - Get expert advice from Yahoo! Tech
bloggers.
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What to have students read after Captain Underpants:
Time Warp Trio by SciezkaFranny
K Stein by Jim Benton
Ghosts of Fear Street, Rotten School, or Goosebumps by R.L. Stein
Beverly Cleary books
Joanna Hurwitz books
Dan Gutman books
Junie B Jones by Barbara Park
Bunnicula by James Howe
Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Andy Russell by D. Adler
Horace Splattly the Cupcaked Crusader by Lawrence David
The Zack Files by Dan Greenburg
Geronimo Stilton
Hank Zipzer by Henry Winkler
Joey Pigza by Jack Gantos
Books to teach Metaphors:
"It Figures!: Fun Figures of Speech by Marvin Terban
Metaphors, Similes, And Other Word Pictures in Picture Books
The Wagon [and others by this author] Tony Johnston
The Man Who Called Down Owls Eve Bunting
The Night Before Christmas Moore, Clement.
The Bicycle Man Allen Say
Hide and Seek Fog Alvin Tresselt
Quick as a Cricket Wood, Audrey.
Seven Blind Mice Young, Ed. (398.2 YOL)
Color Me a Rhyme Jane Yolen (811 YOL)
Let's Get a Pup! Said Kate Bob Graham
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses Paul Goble (398.2 GOB)
Chanticleer and the fox Barbara Cooney
Owl Moon; Encounter Jane Yolen
Come on, Rain Karen Hesse
Knots on a Counting Rope Bill Martin
Flossie and the Fox Pat McKissack
Night of the Twisters Ivy Ruckman
The Talking Eggs San Souci
Sam and the Tigers Julius Lester
After consulting with the book, Using Picture books to teach literary devices, these are the ones that I am familiar with:
Come on, Rain! by Karen Hesse
River Friendly, River Wild by Jane Kurtz
Black Cat by Christopher Myers
The Little Island by Golden MacDonald
Tar Beach by Fairth Ringgold
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt
Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
The Lady and the Spider by Faith McNulty
Knots on a Counting Rope by Bill Martin
Grandfather's Lovesong by Reeve Lindbergh ; illustrated by Rachel Isadora.
Publishing for Young Author's Information:
http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/basic/yngwrite.html
Word Magnets: http://www.triptico.co.uk/flashFiles/wordMagnets/WordMagnets.html
How to get your classes online: Teaching Innovations: http://teachinginnovations.wikispaces.com/TnC_Media
Want to read the blogs of some teachers? Check out these: http://www.livemocha.com/education-blog-list.htm
News for Children from the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/wnc/
Methacton Video Conference wiki.
School Library Curriculum: http://greatlibs.wikispaces.com/Curricula+for+School+Libraries
School Library Curriculum: Ephrata Area School District .
School Library Curriculum: Pittsburgh .
Digital Literacy Workshop: http://sites.google.com/site/digitalliteracyworkshop/home
http://sites.google.com/site/digitalliteracyworkshop/big-huge-labs
Librarians can teach Social Media: http://www.techlearning.com/article/23558
21 Ways to Use Google Docs in the Classroom/Library: http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_8323t58h3ft&ncl=true
Free Royalty Free Clip Art for Destiny: http://www.phillipmartin.info/clipart/homepage.htm.
Creative Commons: What every educator should know .
A little of everything: http://eduscapes.com/
A Wiki by Librarians to Help Librarians learn Web 2.0 tools:
http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/
A wiki for librarians- this page is a list with links of book-related podcasts: http://bookleads.wikispaces.com/book-related%20podcasts.
Dewey Decimal System: http://languagearts.pppst.com/deweydecimals.html
New Search Engine that gives you tabs of results including Google, Bing, YouTube, Wikipedia, Twitter, etc.: http://www.browsys.com/.
Library Skills video and more: http://www.libraryskills.com/
14 Ways Librarians can teach Social Media: http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/1230049123.html?nid=3714
Teacher Librarian Videoconferencing is a Ning from California that meets via videoconferencing once a month.
http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/index.html is list of top 100 educational web apps.
Book Report ideas: http://www.webenglishteacher.com/bookreports.html
Children's Authors and what they wrote: http://www.webenglishteacher.com/childlit.html
Media Literacy and Information Literacy: http://www.webenglishteacher.com/media.html
Journalism Resources: http://www.webenglishteacher.com/journ.html
Powerpoints on just about everything: http://www.pppst.com/themes.html
Blog on the 10 Best Education Games with links to those games.
School Library Resources: http://librarysupportstaff.com/4schools.html
http://www.sldirectory.com/
Books with Audio:
http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/library-audio.htm
Miami University Children's Book Database:
This is a wonderful resource... you can search by author, subject, whatever!
http://www.lib.muohio.edu/pictbks/
International Digital Children's Library
http://childrenslibrary.org/
Media Skills Class with links: http://www.gcs.k12.nc.us/schools/Hawley/Media%20Skills.htm
Media Awareness for kids- lesson: http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/games/jocool_jofool/kids.cfm
Media-Savy with Quiz- http://www.classzone.com/books/research_guide/page_build.cfm?state=none&CFID=402829&CFTOKEN=6400558
Technology Tutorials: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line2.htm#qt
State Book Awards from the entire US from Simon and Shuster: http://tinyurl.com/38jbtb
Books about Libraries and Librarians... an annotated bibliography!
http://mingo.info-science.uiowa.edu/%7Eheintzelman/foundations/mainpage.htm
Make your own tests: http://mynichecomputing.org/NOnline_Test_Bldg_Kit7/autoTest.htm
One billion mazes: http://www.onebillionmazes.com/
Filamentality- Create WebQuests and more...
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/
CyberSmart Lesson Plans and Activities
http://www.cybersmartcurriculum.org/lesson_plans/
Practical teaching units and classroom activities for media education
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/teachers/index.cfm
This is an awesome site: (for lesson plans and ideas)
http://hcps2.hanover.k12.va.us/instruction/media/LessonPlanBook.htm
For the district's actual library curriculum
http://hanover.k12.va.us/instruction/media/librarycurriculum.pdf
Yahoo! Safely: Net Safety Resources for Teachers & Parents
<http://safely.yahoo.com/>
How does Yahoo! help keep kids safe online? Find out on the recently
launched Yahoo! Safely <http://safely.yahoo.com/> site! As the most
trafficked internet destination in the world, Yahoo! is committed to
ensuring that the 30 million children on the internet in the US are
exploring it safely.
The new Yahoo! Safely site collects resources, knowledge and expertise
from across the Web for children, parents, and educators to raise
awareness about the importance of safety
<http://www.debaird.net/blendededunet/safety/index.html> , ethics and
piracy.
Check out some of the interactive features on Yahoo! Safely that help
kids form safe and smart Internet habits early in life:
- Games and Activities - Play cyber-safety games online
- Clips and Videos - Watch educational videos that help kids
become good cyber-citizens- Weekly Poll - Vote on opinions about safe practices
- Avatar ID Card - Submit Avatars to be featured in the gallery
- Online Safety Forum for Parents - Join in the discussion about
online child safety- Tech Advisor Articles - Get expert advice from Yahoo! Tech
bloggers.Make anything into a PDF:
Create PDFs on the fly, for free
http://www.expresspdf.com/
Don't have Acrobat, or don't happen to have it on the computer you're using? Try ExpressPDF, a site that will convert your Word or Excel document, or web page, to PDF."
What to have students read after Captain Underpants:
Time Warp Trio by SciezkaFranny
K Stein by Jim Benton
Ghosts of Fear Street, Rotten School, or Goosebumps by R.L. Stein
Beverly Cleary books
Joanna Hurwitz books
Dan Gutman books
Junie B Jones by Barbara Park
Bunnicula by James Howe
Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Andy Russell by D. Adler
Horace Splattly the Cupcaked Crusader by Lawrence David
The Zack Files by Dan Greenburg
Geronimo Stilton
Hank Zipzer by Henry Winkler
Joey Pigza by Jack Gantos
30 Inspiring things to do with YouTube in the classroom: http://www.ideastoinspire.co.uk/index.html#1
Books to teach Metaphors:
"It Figures!: Fun Figures of Speech by Marvin Terban
Metaphors, Similes, And Other Word Pictures in Picture Books
The Wagon [and others by this author] Tony Johnston
The Man Who Called Down Owls Eve Bunting
The Night Before Christmas Moore, Clement.
The Bicycle Man Allen Say
Hide and Seek Fog Alvin Tresselt
Quick as a Cricket Wood, Audrey.
Seven Blind Mice Young, Ed. (398.2 YOL)
Color Me a Rhyme Jane Yolen (811 YOL)
Let's Get a Pup! Said Kate Bob Graham
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses Paul Goble (398.2 GOB)
Chanticleer and the fox Barbara Cooney
Owl Moon; Encounter Jane Yolen
Come on, Rain Karen Hesse
Knots on a Counting Rope Bill Martin
Flossie and the Fox Pat McKissack
Night of the Twisters Ivy Ruckman
The Talking Eggs San Souci
Sam and the Tigers Julius Lester
After consulting with the book, Using Picture books to teach literary devices, these are the ones that I am familiar with:
Come on, Rain! by Karen Hesse
River Friendly, River Wild by Jane Kurtz
Black Cat by Christopher Myers
The Little Island by Golden MacDonald
Tar Beach by Fairth Ringgold
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt
Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
The Lady and the Spider by Faith McNulty
Knots on a Counting Rope by Bill Martin
Grandfather's Lovesong by Reeve Lindbergh ; illustrated by Rachel Isadora.